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Is there binaries I can install or do I need to compile something? I have no idea where the code is.

In short - there are no binaries and it's relatively hard to compile these manually, so I recommend to wait until the Linux distributions picks these projects up. This usually takes around 6 to 12 months.

Holy cow, that was a LOL from hell. Are you serious? 6-12 months is the biggest tease. "Here's this really cool thing, but maybe, if you're lucky, you'll be able to use it in a year or so." That's the quarter super glued to the floor kind of frustrating.

It's not super glued to the floor. It's on a train, on its way to your station. How far away your station is from the train entirely depends on the length of the release cycle of your Linux distribution, and is completely outwith the control of this developer. That's how Linux distros work. If you want it sooner you can always use a rolling release, such as Manjaro.

The new X server is already in Debian experimental [0], with a bit of luck it trickles down to unstable just in time for Ubuntu to pick it up for the 22.04 release.

If you are running Arch you already have it [1].

[0] https://packages.debian.org/experimental/xorg-server-source [1] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/xorg-server/

What versions of the mentioned packages is this feature included in? I.e. what should I be looking for in my distro updates?

Touchpad gesture implementation in X server has been released in version 21.1

Wayland touchpad gesture implementation in Qt widget framework has been released in version 6.2.0

X11 touchpad gesture implementation in Gtk widget framework has been released in version 4.5.0

X11 touchpad gesture implementation it Qt widget framework will be released in version 6.3.0 (March 2022)

Touchpad gesture implementation for XWayland will be released in version 22.1 (early 2022)

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